Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/February/February 5
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- 1602: birth of Franciscus van den Enden, teacher of Baruch de Spinoza and an early promotor of democracy
- 1885: King Léopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
- 1937: birth of Gaston Roelants, winner of the gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo on the 3,000 m steeplechase in a new world record
- 1940: birth of Panamarenko, artist
- 1985: birth of Tatiana Silva, Miss Belgium 2005
- 1995: the draft is abolished in Belgium
- 2000: death of George Koltanowski, holder of the world record for most simultaneous blindfolded chess games